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In a legally questionable move, Gov. Doug Ducey is ordering the Department of Revenue not to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales taxes against certain types of businesses that the agency -- and even a court -- says are owed to the state.

Gov. Doug Ducey vetoed two bills by fellow Republicans on Monday that asked the federal government turn over public lands to the state. The GOP lawmakers said they wanted to use Arizona's federal public lands as a new stream of revenue for the state.

Gov. Doug Ducey and Republican lawmakers have largely walked in lockstep since the new governor was sworn in, but controversial measures pushed by his allies in the Legislature have forced him to make tough decisions, which resulted in his first round of vetoes.

Sign-toting protestors made noise opposing a bill giving police officers involved in shootings a two-month period of anonymity, but Gov. Doug Ducey listened most closely to the chiefs of police in deciding to veto it.

Gov. Doug Ducey vetoed a bill that would have barred law enforcement agencies from imposing quotas for traffic citations on police officers. In his veto letter on Monday, Ducey said such quotas “don’t currently appear to be happening” in Arizona ...

As the son of a cop, Gov. Doug Ducey was sympathetic towards the aim of a bill giving police officers involved in shootings a two-month period of anonymity. But he vetoed it today because it went too far.